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Lake sediments and environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau

  • ZHU Liping ,
  • GUO Yun
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Environmental Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
    2. CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences(Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, China

Received date: 2016-11-24

  Revised date: 2017-02-23

  Online published: 2017-03-30

Abstract

The study of historical environmental changes is important for understanding the general trends of climatic and environmental changes, objectively evaluating the present environment in the context of the climatic and environmental history. It provides scientific test tools for predicting future climatic and environmental changes. This paper reviews the studies of the relations between the lake sediment proxies and the climatic factors, and the reconstruction of the environmental change history in the last 20 thousand years, based upon the lake sediments, to elucidate the sensitive response of the lake sediments to the climatic changes on the Tibetan Plateau.

Cite this article

ZHU Liping , GUO Yun . Lake sediments and environmental changes on the Tibetan Plateau[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2017 , 35(6) : 65 -70 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2017.06.007

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